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<TITLE>Benjamin Watson International Experience</TITLE>

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<H1><CENTER>International Experience</CENTER></H1>

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As noted above, I am ACOG's Associate Envoy to 
<!WA1><A HREF="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Phd/Benjamin.Watson/links/liechtenstein.html">Liechtenstein</A> for the
<!WA2><A HREF="http://www.atlanta.olympic.org/">1996 Olympic Games</A>.  
For now, this means weekly training sessions in Olympianism, Olympic Village 
orientation, and international protocol. During the Games, I will spend most 
of my waking hours in the Village or at events with the team, making sure their 
needs are met.  Incidentally, <!WA3><A HREF="http://www.gatech.edu">Georgia Tech</A>
is the site of the Village.<P>

In the summer of 1993, I was the lucky recipient of a $10,000 
<!WA4><A HREF="gopher://x.nsf.gov:70/0waisdocid%3A/.waissrc/nsf-pubs.src%3ATEXT%3A11204%3A3%3D0%20-11204%20/home/ftp/SBE/intdocs/int95020.txt%3B7%3D%2500%3B">
NSF Summer Institute in Japan </A> scholarship.  This is a program 
organized with the cooperation of the 
<!WA5><A HREF="http://www.jicst.go.jp/www/Institutes/sta/stanet/home.html">
Science and Technology Agency (STA)</A>.  I visited and worked at MITI's 
<!WA6><A HREF="http://www.aist.go.jp/">AIST</A> 
<!WA7><A HREF="http://www.etl.go.jp">Electrotechnical Laboratory</A>,
<!WA8><A HREF="http://www.etl.go.jp/organizations/mac.html">
Machine Understanding Division</A>, in Tsukuba, Japan for two months.
While there, I studied the Japanese language, visited several Japanese 
laboratories performing research in virtual reality, studied the
Japanese language with <!WA9><A HREF="http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp">Tsukuba University</A>
instructors, and learned about Japanese culture.  I also took the opportunity to
visit South Korea and China.<P>

I've reported on my journeys and adventures in Japan in the following two 
papers: <P>

<UL>
<!WA10><A HREF="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Phd/Benjamin.Watson/ps/JpnRpt_Pres.ps.Z">
A survey of virtual reality in Japan</A>.  B.A. Watson (1994).  <I>Presence:
Teleoperators and Virtual Environments</I>, Vol. 3,1.  pp. 1-18.<BR>
<BR>
Trip report: The NSF Summer Institute in Japan".  B.A. Watson (1994).  A Georgia Tech technical
report.<BR><P>
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I've also spent one and a half years studying in Germany on an $8000 
<!WA11><A HREF="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Phd/Benjamin.Watson/wsf/wsf.html">
WSF</A> scholarship, and so learned to speak fluent German.  I studied at the 
<!WA12><A HREF="http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/">University of Stuttgart</A>'s 
<!WA13><A HREF="http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/informatik.html">Informatik</A> 
faculty.<P>



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